JUST when you thought Rangers fans couldn’t get more angry, the club go and make a mess of recruiting Kevin Muscat to be the next manager.
And that discontent is being felt 5,000 miles away in San Francisco.
The Ibrox club’s new American owners must be feeling the heat already, having witnessed several protests at home games both before and after the sacking of Russell Martin.
His appointment put them on the back foot from the start but now the botched attempts to bring in Steven Gerrard and Muscat have further angered the Gers support.
So much so that many of them felt the need to let the admin of the San Francisco 49ers social media accounts know about their frustrations.
The NFL franchise is operated by the same 49ers Enterprises group that took a controlling stake in Rangers earlier this year.
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And as the 49ers prepared for a regular season game against the Atlanta Falcons, Andrew Cavenagh and Paraag Marathe need only look at the replies to a pre-game tweet to see just how toxic things are becoming in Glasgow.
The 49ers official account tweeted details of the game against the Falcons at 5.19pm UK time (.seven hours before kick-off).
It read simply: “Tonight. 5:20 PM. Under the lights.”
But furious Gers supporters hijacked the post to tell their US owners what they think – and, perhaps more importantly, urge them to sack under-fire sporting director Kevin Thelwell and chief executive Patrick Stewart.
This fan said: “Get Thelwell and Stewart sacked please. Concentrate on the problems at hand. Thanks.”
Another said; “Get rid of these punks.”
Others were less constructive, shall we say.
“Hope you get smashed ya yank frauds,” said one.
“Stick to this sport as you know f*** all about football,” came another.
Many more of the replies continued in this vein.
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